Our team

Making life-saving surgical care available to all

Secretariat

Mrs. Nefti
Bempong-Ahun

Project Manager

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Dr. Mélanie Samson

Senior Technical Officer, Women’s Health

Ms. Marta Erroz

Operations Manager

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Dr. John E. Varallo

Team Lead, Women’s Health

Ms. Francesca Vitucci

Project Manager, SURGhub

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Mr. Sebastian Hofbauer

Programme Manager

Dr. Geoff Ibbotson

Executive Director

Mr. Jan Plavcan

Senior Advisor, Strategy, Communications and Partnerships

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Ms. Yuval Cohen

Project Associate,
Women’s Health

Governing Bodies

Foundation Board

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Prof. Rifat Atun

Board Chair

Dr. Phumzile
Mlambo-Ngcuka

Board Member

Mr. John Cross

Board Member

High-Level Council

Dr. Lubna Samad

Co-Chair

Dr. Ifereimi Waquainabete

Western Pacific

Dr. Reem Al Bunyan

Middle East & North Africa

Dr. Adrian Gelb

Americas

Mr. Roland Göhde

Private Sector

Ms. Stella Itungu

Professional Societies

Dr. Noor Hisham

South & South-East Asia

Mr. Pradeep Kakkattil

NGOs

Mr. Ricardo Leite

Europe & Central Asia

Dr. Salome Maswime

Academia

Dr. Liz McLeod

Western Pacific

Dr. John Meara

Academia

Mr. Justin Narducci

NGOs

Dr. Aly Shalaby

Middle East & North Africa

Mr. Rali Mampeule

Philanthropic Donors

Dr. Emmanuel Makasa

Sub-Saharan Africa

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Ms. Lauren Marks

Private Sector

Ms. Susie Schaefer

Organisational Founders

Technical Advisory Council

Dr. Abebe Bekele

Professional Societies

Dr. Daniela Filipescu

Europe & Central Asia

Dr. Kee Park

Americas

Dr. Matchecane Cossa

Sub-Saharan Africa

Dr. Walt Johnson

NGOs

Dr. Ronke Desalu

Professional Societies

Dr. Bhagawan Koirala

South & South-East Asia

Dr. Nesrine Elrefai

Middle-East & North Africa

Dr. Chris Lundgren

Academia

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Advisors

Dr. Anam Noor Ehsan

Dr. Benjamin Gold

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Mr. Julio Andrade

Dr. Mark Shrime

Dr. Ché L. Reddy

Dr. Tom Randall

Dr. Dominique Vervoort

Dr. Kusum Thapa

Dr. Matthias Rüger

Dr. Scott Corlew

Dr. Alfredo Borrero Vega Special Envoy

Dr. Kavitha Ranganathan

Prof. Hadiza Galadanci

Dr. Nobhojit Roy

Dr. Rahel Nardos

Academic Fellows

Meet previous academic fellows here.

Dr. Anmol Patted

Based at Thomas Jefferson University, USA

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Ms. Noor Alesawy

Based at John Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

Dr. AN Na

Based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

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Ms. Allison Lu

Based at Creighton University of Medicine, USA

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